Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Straight, Inc. and Derivatives
Straight was a cake walk in comparison.....
Kathy:
Nobody is whining about "being yelled at in rehab" -- but I guarantee that these kids in the boot camps today, are tortured far beyond anything you experienced in the county jail. Read some of the boot camp stories before you start whining about your county jail experiences.
Anonymous:
You need to jsut be quiet, have you ever been in jail while someone on your cell block is murdered? You sanctimonious ass.
Anonymous:
"You guarantee"!!!. On what basis are you so sure?. And if you would end your practice of cranial rectal insertion, you would realize people go to boot camps to AVOID the jails I am referring to. Yes, they would willingly put up with the "horrors" of boot camp to avoid jail. They obviously have friends who have done the boot camp routine, and friends who have done jail time. Then they make a CHOICE to go to the boot camps. The judge offers you the boot camp as an option to jail. Come on Einstein, even you should realize they definitely don't want jail time, hence they take the lesser of two evils. Your logic is tre' faulty, watch some old Star Trek reruns and pay attention to Mr. Spock and your logic skills may improve. We will test you again next semester.
Kathy:
Many vicious homicides have occured in these current day boot camps. Of course each death is usually preceded by several days/weeks/months of torture.
Sure, many have chosen a boot camp or a rehab over prison or perhaps even over the evil county jail with the misconception that treatment would be much easier than jail.... However, there are many stories of those who had been in jail, who choose various types of "treatment over incarceration" when the opportunity arose, only to find themselves doing anything they could... to get back to jail.
I guess everyone's perceptions are different. I'm sorry your time in the county jail was so bad. Not everyone believes jail is worse than being "helped." Obviously you did and that's ok. I'm not going to continue to debate who has had it worse.
I'd just like to get the word out to parents or professionals that when they are reaching out to help their troubled teen, sometimes they are sentencing them to death instead; and usually without any due process.
Anonymous:
What? Boot camps are worse than doing time? Can't get back to jail? You are either the dumbest person on the planet or are just flat out lying to further your misguided viewpoint. Where does your perfect rehab exist? Any rehab for minors is too restrictive and bound to be cruel and abusive. If you want to see an adult rehab you will see that 99% of them are there for pure profit and they make no bones about their motives. They could give a damn if anyone got clean or not, they've got their money and that is all they care about. Rehabilitation is a nice word for politicians to toss around for the vapid masses to suck up on their sound bites. The vast majority of people in rehabs are trying to avoid incarceration, same for boot camps. I guess you are naive enough to focus on the few whining malcontents who tell their sob stories to the media talking heads. The "statistics" tossed about for drugs/alcohol and related treatment are simply lies. If you know anything about statistics delve into sample size, r-squared, cross correlation, etc. Here is the fact of life, if you want to play you have got to pay. You don't think anyone should take responsibility for their actions at all. And christ, if you could not get through Straight in about 12 months without too much confrontation then you were just seeking attention or plain stupid. Yes, I know all kinds of bullshit went on there, I worked there for a year on staff. I disliked hated alot of my fellow staff/counselors, a demented high schoolish clique of power tripping, self-absorbed assholes. Why don't your found your own subtance abuse/behavioral modification/criminal rehabilitation chain of facilities that solves all of the US's problems and show us how it's done. I have no pity for someone who carjacks a woman and bashes her head in then gets sent to a harsh boot camp where he catches some major shit. Now he'll whine and say he's being abused. You want to be a thug and act tough, then you're gonna pay. If you don't have a drug problem then you won't keep getting busted for drugs (by police or your parents if you are a minor) and won't get placed in a situation like Straight, et al. That's about the long and short of it. Lights out.
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